Engineering Manager - Diving and Hyperbaric

Permanent

Caringbah, Australia

The Role:

As the Engineering Manager - Diving and Hyperbaric, you will be responsible for delivering safe, innovative diving and hyperbaric solutions across the full engineering lifecycle. The role manages a multidisciplinary team, oversees technical outputs, and ensures engineering activities meet safety, quality, cost, and compliance requirements while supporting major commercial and defence projects.

What you’ll be doing:

- Leading the Engineering department in alignment with JFD strategic objectives and regulatory frameworks.
- Drive the delivery of engineering solutions that achieve the highest standards of safety, quality, operability, supportability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Oversee engineering budgets, schedules, and project execution, ensuring delivery within scope, time, and cost targets.
- Monitor departmental performance, using reporting, capacity planning, and metrics to drive accountability and continuous improvement.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering a culture of safety, innovation, and engineering excellence.
- Partner with Production and key stakeholders to deliver cost-competitive solutions through advanced manufacturing and productive engineering practices.

What we’re looking for:

- Degree qualified in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Registered with Engineers Australia (or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams in subsea, Defence, maritime, hyperbaric or other safety-critical engineering environments.
- Strong understanding of product design, systems integration verification, validation, certification and through-life engineering support.
- Strong understanding of customer, contractual, regulatory and assurance obligations in a defence environment.
- Experienced in managing risk, configuration control, design reviews and engineering change.
- Experience setting and delivering medium- and long-term strategies, budgets and resource plans
- Strong leadership, communication,



coaching and stakeholder management skills
- Must be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance

Why join us?

- Join a team of people who are passionate about their job.
- Opportunity to expand the role and obtain new skills and experience.
- Contribute to a growing and successful business with an exciting order book.
- Wellbeing programs - employee assistance program to support you and your immediate family with counselling and support as needed.
- Adaptable working arrangements, including a condensed working week to support a half day every Friday.
- Generous paid community service leave to support your local community or serve as a defence reservist.
- Weekly fruit baskets to keep hunger at bay on busy days.
- Free on-site parking.
- Novated car leasing options available.
- Paid Parental Leave Scheme

About Us:

James Fisher is a global engineering services company operating across Energy, Defence, and Maritime Transport. With a strong heritage in maritime operations, we now deliver innovative solutions in challenging environments. Our One James Fisher strategy is focused on building a unified, sustainable business within the Blue Economy, driving progress through technology, expertise, and collaboration.

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James Fisher Defence (JFD), part of the James Fisher Group, is a global leader in underwater capability, delivering cutting-edge diving, submarine rescue, and hyperbaric solutions to both commercial and defence markets.
Operating worldwide, JFD is the foremost provider of submarine rescue services and a trusted name in submarine escape training. We're also at the forefront of hyperbaric rescue innovation and a leading supplier of advanced diving equipment and saturation systems across the industry. Explore more about JFD: Defence | James Fisher and Sons

James Fisher and Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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